network's new Sunday schedule in pattern; it also added both networks' new children's programming blocks (UPN Kids and Kids' WB), running their weekend lineups back-to-back on Sunday mornings and early afternoons as part of a seven-hour block of network and syndicated cartoons. On April 1, 1996, the station became a primary affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company and shifted UPN to secondary status; this would leave the Topeka market without a local WB affiliate until the September 1998 launch of cable-only WB 100+ affiliate "WBKS" (now CW Plus affiliate KTKA-DT3, and operated at the time by KSNT). Until then, area residents would have to rely on either the superstation feed of Chicago affiliate WGN-TV or, upon its September 1996 sign-on, Kansas City affiliate KCWB (now CW affiliate KCWE) to view WB programming. In 2001, then-owner Montgomery Communications reassigned the KTMJ-CA call letters to the repeater on UHF channel 43 in Topeka, converting that outlet—which was also re-designated as a Class A station—into the flagship station of the group. At that time, channel 17 became a Class A station and changed its call letters to KETM-CA, subsequently becoming a repeater of channel 43. The Junction City station that originally held the KTMJ calls also had its call letters changed to KTLJ-CA. With the reassignment of the Topeka station as the originating station for KTMJ, Montgomery Communications relocated the station's operations from Junction City to facilities on Southgate Drive in southwest Topeka; master control operations remained in Junction City, before moving to the Topeka facility in May 2004. KTMJ-CA and its repeaters dropped the secondary UPN affiliation in 2003. New Vision Television ownership On July 7, 2008, New Vision Television (owner of NBC affiliate KSNT) announced its intention to buy KTMJ and its repeaters from Montgomery Communications. The purchase was completed on September 1. As a result, KTMJ relocated its operations into KSNT's facilities on Northwest 25th Street. In November 2008, KSNT began providing a simulcast of KTMJ-CA on its second digital subchannel, replacing CW Plus affiliate "Northeast Kansas CW 5" (which concurrently moved to present-day sister station KTKA-TV). Sale to LIN Media, and then Media General On May 7, 2012, LIN TV Corporation announced that it would acquire the New Vision Television station group, including KSNT and KTMJ-CD, for $330.4 million and the assumption of $12 million in debt. Along with the outright ownership of KSNT and KTMJ, the agreement included